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Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.05 — 717 ratings — published 2013
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,100 ratings — published 1999
The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,699 ratings — published 2010
The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.09 — 320 ratings — published 2003
Life Everywhere: The New Science Of Astrobiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 109 ratings — published 2001
The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.02 — 773 ratings — published
The Little Book of Aliens: Astrophysicist Adam Frank unpacks SETI, the Fermi Paradox, and cutting-edge astrobiology in humanity's quest for alien life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,162 ratings — published
Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.77 — 139 ratings — published 2002
Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,313 ratings — published 2016
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,976 ratings — published 2006
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,446 ratings — published 2020
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,922,302 ratings — published 2021
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,689 ratings — published 2021
Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,116 ratings — published 2020
The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 433 ratings — published 2018
Life in the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.17 — 132 ratings — published 2002
An Introduction to Astrobiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.04 — 54 ratings — published 2004
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,529 ratings — published 1980
Astrobiology: Understanding Life in the Universe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.51 — 35 ratings — published 2015
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,897 ratings — published 2024
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,241 ratings — published 2023
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,048 ratings — published 1994
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,195 ratings — published 2015
Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 317 ratings — published 2016
Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe (Bloomsbury Sigma)
by (shelved 4 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.68 — 200 ratings — published 2016
Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.86 — 967 ratings — published 2013
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,529 ratings — published 2002
Life in the Universe: A Beginner's Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.10 — 169 ratings — published 2007
Bewilderment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.90 — 75,192 ratings — published 2021
What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,123 ratings — published 2012
The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 139 ratings — published 2007
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.79 — 766 ratings — published 2018
Is Anyone Out There? The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.81 — 89 ratings — published 1992
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.15 — 156,911 ratings — published 1985
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.40 — 190,026 ratings — published 2010
The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.84 — 156 ratings — published 2011
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.69 — 511 ratings — published 2013
First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.76 — 137 ratings — published 2011
Are We Alone? Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.92 — 331 ratings — published 1995
How to Find a Habitable Planet (Science Essentials)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.00 — 95 ratings — published 2009
The Science Of Aliens (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.80 — 113 ratings — published 1998
Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 2008
After Contact (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.72 — 18 ratings — published 1997
The Biological Universe: The Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science (Volume 0)
by (shelved 3 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.42 — 19 ratings — published 1996
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,089 ratings — published 2006
The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.04 — 92 ratings — published 2007
Wyobrażone życie. Wyprawa na egzoplanety w poszukiwaniu inteligentnych istot pozaziemskich, stworzeń lodu i zwierząt supergrawitacyjnych (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.80 — 486 ratings — published 2019
Origins of Life. How Life Began. Abiogenesis, Astrobiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.00 — 24 ratings — published 2010
Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 3.92 — 787 ratings — published 2017
The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as astrobiology)
avg rating 4.05 — 516 ratings — published 1999
“Science of Life, Class in Session
(Sonnet 2087-2088)
Nature doesn't kill anybody,
nor does it save anybody -
life and death are human constructs,
just like beauty and the grotesque -
nature is above all that,
not in an almighty, all-knowing
sort of way, but more of
an indifferent sort of way -
because in nature, nothing's born,
nothing dies, they just change shape,
and some of those shapes are sentient,
some intelligent, some neither -
and each identity gets restructured
as they go through the shape-shifting,
which includes restructure of sentience,
or non-sentience, as the case may be.
Same elements that make the nonsentient stars,
when they change shape into organic material,
such as humans, they produce sentience,
but as a human corpse decay into nature,
those elements get absorbed into the soil,
into trees, bugs, and all sorts of creatures,
thus they seep into a diverse range of
sentient and nonsentient materials -
and thus the cycle continues,
from the birth of the universe
till the end of the universe -
beyond that, I don't know - nobody does -
it doesn't matter what happens after,
what matters is, how you behave now.”
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
(Sonnet 2087-2088)
Nature doesn't kill anybody,
nor does it save anybody -
life and death are human constructs,
just like beauty and the grotesque -
nature is above all that,
not in an almighty, all-knowing
sort of way, but more of
an indifferent sort of way -
because in nature, nothing's born,
nothing dies, they just change shape,
and some of those shapes are sentient,
some intelligent, some neither -
and each identity gets restructured
as they go through the shape-shifting,
which includes restructure of sentience,
or non-sentience, as the case may be.
Same elements that make the nonsentient stars,
when they change shape into organic material,
such as humans, they produce sentience,
but as a human corpse decay into nature,
those elements get absorbed into the soil,
into trees, bugs, and all sorts of creatures,
thus they seep into a diverse range of
sentient and nonsentient materials -
and thus the cycle continues,
from the birth of the universe
till the end of the universe -
beyond that, I don't know - nobody does -
it doesn't matter what happens after,
what matters is, how you behave now.”
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Humans are like the trees of planet earth, extremely rare in the universe, yet still wasted.”
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
― Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes
